Paraprofessional (NE)

Essential Job Functions

Maintain a kind, up-beat, positive, considerate, and compassionate attitude.

Act as a role-model exemplifying qualities of dignity and respect.

Maintain working relationships with your student(s) and their teachers.

Collaborate with teachers to support students' growth and development.

Be willing to seek and accept advice, guidance, support, and feedback.

• Accomplishes instructional activities planned and developed by the teacher.
• Assists the assigned student(s) with review of teacher assignments; repeats/simplifies teacher presented instructions; helps student(s) in seatwork activities; redirection and prompting to task, and reviews material originally presented to students by the teacher.
• Assists the teacher in housekeeping tasks in the classroom.
• Tends to the personal needs of the assigned student(s), including but not limited to toileting and other hygiene needs, physical needs such as wheelchair/walker transfers, feeding schedules, monitoring medical conditions and behavior management.
• Ensures that certain specially designed instruction of the assigned student(s)' Individual Education Plan (IEP) are implemented.
• Helps patient maintain good personal hygiene, such as: Assistance with bathing, toileting, grooming, shaving, skin and nail care, oral hygiene, dressing and eating.
• Thorough completion and coordination of all required documentation, such as: Maintaining and completing the necessary patient/family and Company documentation records upon conclusion of each visit.
• Observe and report significant changes in patient’s condition to Supervisor.

Data Collection

• Data collection as assigned by the teacher or administrator, including but not limited to behavior charts, daily logs, progress monitoring, program charting, or daily summary notes.

Other Duties

• Communicates with the student(s)’ family, classroom teacher(s), and administration observing confidentiality of student related issues.
• Accompanies the assigned student(s) upon arrival, at lunch, dismissal, on field trips and to activities outside of the classroom as indicated in the assigned student’s IEP or when necessary.
• Assists related services therapists/teachers as needed throughout therapy sessions.

Requirements

• High school graduate, GED or equivalent of education and training.
• Registration or Certification as required by state law and regulation.
• Current CPR certification.
• Demonstrated proficiency in clinical assessments, documentation and compliance with aide care and policies and procedures.
• Basic Computer Skills Required.
• Current CPR Certification may be required as stipulated by state or contracting agency.
• Additional State Specific Requirements: Continuing Education as required by state.
• Pediatric and adult experience as appropriate for the patient.
• Other Skills/Abilities: Adhere to confidentiality standards and professional boundaries at all times; Support student(s) in using technology and adaptive devices they need to complete schoolwork, communicate, and navigate throughout the school; Demonstrate attentiveness, the ability to stay focused, and attention to detail; Possess good oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

Physical Requirements

• Frequent lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling, up to 25 pounds.
• Occasional lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling up to 50 pounds.
• Prolonged walking, standing, bending, kneeling, reaching, twisting.
• Sitting and kneeling on the floor and standing up independently.
• Climbing stairs.
• Must have visual and hearing acuity.
• Must have strong sense of smell and touch.
• Must be able to sufficiently reposition students and move equipment without assistance.
• Must have sufficient strength and manual dexterity to safely operate equipment, including grasping and manipulating small objects.
• Must be able to appropriately respond physically and mentally to emergency situations. This may require physical strength, agility, and ability to function under stressful circumstances to evacuate a patient, to provide physical support to the suddenly weak or disabled student, or to perform one-man CPR for a prolonged period.
• Must be able and willing to wear personal protective equipment as needed.

Environment

• Must be able to function in a wide variety of environments which may involve exposure to allergens and other various conditions.
• May involve possible exposure to blood, bodily fluids and infectious diseases.